Author: Sarra Cannon

Last night I finished the epic Stephen King novel, The Stand. In a word? It was BRILLIANT. I read the long version that was published something like 10 years after the original. Story goes that the publishers thought the book was too long when he first turned it in, so they made him cut about 100,000 words. Later, after the book was such an enormous success, he went back and published it in full. That is the version I read. 1138 pages. I doubt there are many people who don’t know the premise of The Stand, but I’ll try to…

As you know, I joined Jenny Craig about a month ago! The program has been surprisingly easy to stick to. Mostly, I attribute that to the food being so good – and also the fact that I can eat things like cheesecake and double chocolate cake that taste almost like regular non-diet foods. As of yesterday’s weigh-in, I have officially lost 11.2 pounds! We also did some measurements around my bust, waist, abdomen, and hips when I first started. I won’t tell you all those measurements :P, but I will say that every month they measure you again to see…

I have already signed up and bought my plane ticket for the Romance Writers of America National Conference in Nashville, TN! I even have my room at the Opryland Hotel booked (a hotel I have always wanted to stay in!). I can’t wait! The conference is at the end of July, and a list of editor and agents who will be taking appointments and pitches just went up online! I’m sure some people will be added to the list as it gets closer to the date where people can sign up for times, but I am already extremely happy with…

Yay! This is officially my 500th Sweetie Chronicles post! I started writing this blog a few years ago as an exercise in just waking up and getting something down every day. At first, it was hard to stick with it. Now, it’s more of a habit, and even though I don’t always write about interesting things, I almost always WRITE. It’s a good way to start my day. That being said, I think it’s time to add another habit to the mix. Now that I’ve gotten used to writing every morning on a random topic, it’s time to start working…

Lately, I have been watching a lot of zombie movies. And yes, most of them are terribly bad. Cheesy. Awful, really. For example, last night I watched “Return of the Living Dead, Part 2”. Yikes. It was actually one of the better ones, but it was still terrible. Bad or not, most zombie movies have similar plot devices. Some of these you will also find in horror movies in general, as well as any movie about an outbreak of a virus or other post-apocalyptic movies. I wanted to put together a list of some typical plot devices and things you…

I “read” this book through audio books on my way to Georgia and back again. It was broken into two parts that I downloaded from Audible, each part about 4 or 5 hours. This book, which is currently on the NYT Bestseller lists for Hardcovers, is about a woman who is buried alive by her identical twin sister. The twin then makes an attempt to take over her sister’s life and steal all of her money. Was this the best book ever written? No. Was it decent? Yeah. There were a lot of basic, overused phrases like “She swallowed hard.”…